My 17 year old off to TRNSMT on the w/e. I ask for a rundown of programme and he talks excitedly about @DeclanMcKenna @gerrycinamon before saying "then I have to sit through some band that are *literally* called Garbage ..." There's the multigenerational gulf right there! 😆

The final part of my mini series 'Forever Songs' - inspired by songs, memories & my delightful neighbour, Al Beck - airs on @BBCRadio3 at 9.45pm, then heads to @BBCSounds Expect a surprise guest. And have a hankie ready. Huge thanks to Al's family and to producer @breithorn

Music - Memory - Connection - Kindness - Humour - Spark - Grief - LOVE. Part 3 of 'Forever Songs' inspired by my late neighbour, Al Beck, is on tonight at 9.45pm on @BBCRadio3 First two episodes already available on @BBCSounds

Do I know anyone here who's got an in to behind scenes end of @HibernianFC?

The Essay - Forever Songs - How Happy I Am - BBC Sounds Loving this story as it unfolds. ⁦@IAMKP⁩ inspired and inspiring as always. Thanks for your good wishes for my ⁦@SalonCompassion⁩ it was a great discussion and fab feedback for my book. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020h…

A beautiful thing about a beautiful thing: @IAMKP's Radio 3 essay about playing a back garden gig, during the pandemic, for a friend nearing the end of his life. Episode one is available now. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020ht…

How good is this from @BBCRadio3 & @IAMKP? Out of this world. Every note & syllable. Listen to the whole series bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020ht…

Thanks so much to @PaulEnglishhack for helping to tell the story of the delightful Al Beck and his back garden, homespun, single household lockdown festival: BECKSTIVAL - featured tonight and all this week at 9.45pm on @BBCRadio3 - 'Forever Songs' -

The gift of a bespoke garden gig to a neighbour nearing end of life in the summer of 2020. A glorious email trail about the beloved songs that tell his story. A homespun, single household, lockdown FESTIVAL. Forever Songs @BBCRadio3 @breithorn bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0020ht…

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on MAPS and what they tell us closed auction gig fundraisers for @MedicalAidPal karinepolwart.com/campaigns/…

Three tickets left for this evenings Compassion Salon at 7pm, Steel Coulson Southside in Edinburgh - brilliant bar, brilliant beer, brilliant company.

Just because it's become a TikTok smash the magnificent "Smalltown Boy' by @bronskibeatband "Here Comes The Rain' by mighty @DaveStewart @AnnieLennox with @IngeThomson @GraemeJSmillie @AdmiralFallow Louis Abbott, Calum Mc & Stevie P. youtube.com/watch?v=YJl-Qxyk…

The Stars Are Ours for the right to access land as communities - to roam, to camp, to live in peace. Me and ⁦@MilliganDave⁩ on tour later in June to ⁦@MKStables⁩ ⁦@StollerHall⁩ ⁦@FireStationSun⁩ ⁦@BACKendal⁩ & Cheshire’s Clonter Opera.

Ocht so sorry to hear about the death of Rod Paterson. One of the sweetest ever singers in Scots. As a soloist and also with Jock Tamson's Bairns and The Easy Club, in particular. Love to family and friends. Here he is - "My Nannie, O" youtu.be/R1WVgky1Pxw?feature… via @YouTube

Bairns singing #SmilesBetter from the #SnappyOpera me & @pippamurph made for @mahoganyopera The dastardly (actually just misguided) Smiles Better Inc. bring their shiny Smile Hoover, Smile Remover & Smile Improver, to town. But no-one actually needs it …

Dundonians - how would you pronounce 'The Gaumont' - the old cinema that used to be in the town? Like "Cow-mont' or like "Haw-mont' or in some other particular Dundee fashion? Ta!

RT @AamerAnwar: War crimes before our eyes, intensified deliberately by Israel, whilst the UK persists in its complicity with genocide 💔🇵🇸

Horrific scenes from Rafah tonight. Too awful to re post- charred and decapitated bodies of children. And all while the world watches. I truly hope that in my lifetime we see those in power held to account - those who could have stopped this and failed to do so The appalling heartless leaders who could not even find the words to condemn a massacre that has been live-streamed on our phones for months So many of us have publicly and privately urged our government, the PM, the @FCDOGovUK to act. This is on their watch - because they armed , supported and failed to condemn Netanyahu and his extreme right wing We failed to support the ICJ , abstained at the UNSC , undermined the ICC and continued to arm and support a regime that has brutally slaughtered innocents for months. UK foreign policy on Palestine is morally bankrupt. I am sorry we failed you.🇵🇸